Test 6 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

«it's only a scratch from a stray cat, chill» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, chill · What happens: be · To what, where: scratch

This is test 6 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 scratch	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scratch	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 scratch	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 scratch	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scratch	det
6	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
9	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scratch	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct
12	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scratch	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 chill	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chill	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scratch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	a scratch and chill				from a stray cat	tree rules
2	is	present	chill					right property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Scratches from cats never matter, because cats keep their claws very clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 matter	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 cats	case
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scratches	nmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 matter	advmod
5	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 clean	advmod
13	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	Scratches from cats						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	keep	present	cats	cats's claws				clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme

Option 2

Lick it clean and it will be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lick	obj
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Lick	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fine	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	expl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	imperative	you not said here	it				clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	future	you not said here					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Only bites matter, never scratches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 bites	advmod
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bites	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scratches	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 scratches	advmod
6	scratches	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bites	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present		matter					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient
2	not scratch	present							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wash it, tell a grown-up and get it checked, as scratches can get infected

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wash	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 up	det
6	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 up	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wash	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	obj
12	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 get	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
15	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 get	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wash	advcl
18	infected	infected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wash	imperative	you not said here	it		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
3	get	infinitive	you not said here	up		tree rules
4	check	participle	up not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get	can	scratches		infected property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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